Q 01/05

In which Italian city was Enzo Ferrari born in 1898?

A) Turin

B) Milan

C) Bologna

D) Modena

Answer · why

D) Modena

Modena. His birth certificate is dated 20 February 1898, but Enzo said he was born two days earlier and that heavy snow had kept the birth from being ...

Q 02/05

In which city, a short trip from his home, did the 10-year-old Enzo watch his first motor race in 1908?

A) Brescia

B) Bologna

C) Florence

D) Genoa

Answer · why

B) Bologna

Bologna. The family outing was to watch the cars on a circuit along the Via Emilia, and the boy came away from it set on becoming a racing driver.

Q 03/05

What killed Enzo's father and older brother in 1916?

A) A car crash

B) A flu outbreak

C) The war

D) A workshop fire

Answer · why

B) A flu outbreak

Enzo himself nearly died in the 1918 pandemic and was discharged from the army.

Q 04/05

Which carmaker turned the young Enzo down after World War I, then bought half his company in 1969?

A) Alfa Romeo

B) Fiat

C) Lancia

D) Maserati

Answer · why

B) Fiat

Fiat. Rejected in Turin in the winter of 1918-19, he found work as a test driver for a small firm that stripped down light trucks so their chassis cou...

Q 05/05

In what kind of event did Enzo make his racing debut in 1919?

A) A 24-hour race

B) A road race around Sicily

C) A beach sprint

D) A hillclimb

Answer · why

D) A hillclimb

A hillclimb. He raced from Parma up to Poggio di Berceto, and only later that year took a CMN to Sicily for the far more famous Targa Florio.